Britain's best views

Martin Wainwright is joined in Liverpool by fellow Guardian journalist Ian Cobain for the famous river crossing, with its fine views of the "Three Graces, and then heads 30 miles east to one of the oldest crossings over the Mersey

Right in the heart of Cheshire - county of cheesemakers and footballers' wives - Martin Wainwright finds two reminders of a wilder west that provide fantastic panoramas from their hilltop vantage points